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Touch and Go helps us meet our thoughts more gently and return our attention to our breath. Touch and Go feels more gentle like a badminton game and less intense like tennis or racquet ball.
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Sometimes I feel foolish sitting in meditation when the world is literally on fire or my personal life needs tending. When this happens it helps me to remember that practice helps keep us tender. Towards ourselves, each other. Part of being tender is being open to experiencing what is happening. In our local world, in our global world. We are reminded of our interconnectedness. We are inspired to help create change for the benefit of all.
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Arriving to our practice can feel like trying to park a car that's going 70 MPH.
Sometimes, we bring a lot of "stuff" to our formal practice. We take out seat and there it is! Sometimes, the stuff we bring has a sense of momentum, speed, and urgency to it. When this happens, it can be helpful to first check in with ourselves. To note feelings, thoughts and overall being-ness. Take a few deep breaths. In this way, we can welcome ourselves with some gentleness, thus setting a softer attitude towards practice and what may be arising.
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We are here. We are capable of great things. Practice is not a kind of magic trick but maybe there is something magical in what we discover. For example, that we are not our thoughts.
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It's a brave thing to sit in front of our own mind. To STOP.
We may find that in taking such a pause some things become more noticeable. For example, the voices in our head. Coming into stillness can help us reconnect with the more wise, kind, and loving voices often muted by louder, more negative ones. We come to remember that we are already good enough, whole and worthy.
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Things can be intertwined. Good and bad, sweet and sour. Even our emotions. Certainly, we may have a preference but if we take the view that such things are constantly in relationship with each other then we are more inclined to work with things as they are. Otherwise, we risk throwing out a part of ourselves instead of working with the whole of ourselves. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dailydrops/support
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When we start to work with the habits of our minds we may find a sneaky kind of aggression towards ourselves. The kind that diminishes our confidence, our motivation to try something new. The list could go on....But what if we were to investigate a little? What if we were to question why it is we are so hard on ourselves? What lies beneath these habits?
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To begin our seated practice, we are invited to stay. It almost feels counter intuitive given our conditioning to be always on the move. To be constantly narrating the story of our lives, rather than experiencing it.
I find a little humor in this instruction. I imagine a race car arriving at the starting line only to then be instructed not to hit the gas and GO!
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Our puppy, Nacho, is about to be one-year-old. There was quite a bit of patience, love and training involved. And, much like in our seated practice, the hope is that we are training him in such a way that he enjoys being with us!
When we hold our practice and our "puppy" within the cradle of gentleness we meet each other as we are and, in doing so, continue the cultivation of gentleness.
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Sometimes we may find we are holding more than allowing. We feel more tension than ease. At such times, it may be helpful to take the view that we can hold our practice within a cradle of gentleness. When we feel physical discomfort, we can gently adjust our posture. When we find ourselves distracted we can gently label the experience "thinking" and return our attention to our breath. When we notice we are being aggressive with ourselves, we can notice that, too, and take a fresh start. There can be strength in being gentle.
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Let's review and practice the 3 steps to Mindfulness Meditation practice.
Even a regular listener/practitioner can discover something fresh in familiar practices and routines.
*This is the correct spelling of the website dharmamoon.com that is referenced in this Drop.
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Welcome to Daily Drops! Consider this Drop a fresh start that includes a little about me, mindfulness meditation, and some of the benefits that we might notice with consistent practice. Thank you for listening.
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Sometimes contrasting experiences seem to arise together. Like warm water in an outdoor shower on a chilly and breezy day. Like grief and gratefulness, joy and sorrow.
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Part of being human is relating. Relating with our thoughts, feelings, sensations, people, pets, planet...Mindfulness meditation encourages us to begin with ourselves right where we are.
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Something I have been thinking about lately is our ability to transform the energy of a feeling. Maybe even an emotion. What helps me is to be curious about the feeling or the emotion. Curiosity helps me to create a little space around the experience. And in this space, maybe the realisation that I can transform the experience simply by welcoming it and being willing to work with it. To better understand where it may be coming from.
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Prajna is a Sanskrit word that can be defined as "wisdom" or "knowledge." I find that with practice, with our noticing and our returning, we are creating space. Space for prajna to come through. It could be during our practice or even after. In our noticing there is a letting go and in that letting go there is a space. Maybe just a sliver....
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Why do we push against the things that may be good for us? I know I am a better person, partner, and friend when I sit consistently. So why do I sometimes avoid it and how can I work with this?
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During my commute for 33 days of radiation I drafted a children's picture book. Bring Your Butterflies is about working with our feelings and doing things even when afraid. The concept literally landed right in my lap. I believe this story landed in my lap largely because of the space that my meditation practice seems to generate. The other insight that landed in my lap during that time was the realisation that I have some controlling habit energy. No doubt the unexpected discovery that I had cancer confirmed that so much of what I thought was in my control certainly was not. It may be because of this understanding that my intuition led me smack into the chaos of a creative project!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dailydrops/support
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Perhaps there are some professions and practices where perfection is essential. First thought: surgeons. Practice is essential to perfecting technique because the outcome, in the case of surgery, need be as close to perfect as possible. In this case, the desired outcome of practice is perfection, or as close to it as possible.
In the case of mindfulness meditation, however, practice is just that, practice. And...thank goodness! What a relief to know we are not being asked to take away, fix or add on to anything. Just be where you are and as you are. Letting practice be practice.
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In this Drop we give the mind something to chew on. We will bookend our practice with a few moments of mindfulness meditation and in the middle introduce a topic for contemplation. When your mind wanders, instead of returning your attention to the sensation of your breath, return to the contemplation.
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